Dr Marina Otero Verzier is an architect and researcher and visiting professor of the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, New York. Since 2023, Otero is part of the Architecture and Design Advisory Committee of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. In 2022 she received the Harvard Wheelwright Prize for a project on the future of data storage. From 2020 to 2023, Otero was the Director of the Master’s Degree in Social Design at Design Academy Eindhoven, and from 2015 to 2022, Director of Research at Het Nieuwe Instituut, where she led initiatives focused on work, extraction and mental health. Previously, she was Director of Programming at Studio-X Global Network, Columbia GSAPP. Otero has curated exhibitions such as ‘Compulsive Desires: On Lithium Extraction and Rebellious Mountains’ at the Galeria Municipal do Porto in 2023, “Work, Body, Leisure”, in the Dutch Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale in 2018, and “After Belonging”, at the Oslo Architecture Triennale in 2016. He has co-published “Automated Landscapes” (2023), “Lithium: States of Exhaustion” (2021), “A Matter of Data” (2021), “More-than-Human” (2020), “Architecture of Appropriation” (2019), “Work, Body, Leisure” (2018) and ”After Belonging” (2016), among others. Otero studied at TU Delft and ETSA Madrid and Columbia GSAPP. In 2016, she received her PhD from ETSA Madrid.